DHS: Children in Border Patrol custody to be examined more thoroughly

Posted - December 29 201815:44

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DHS: Children in Border Patrol custody to be examined more thoroughly

An 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who jumped the Mexican border with his father and was caught by the Border Patrol died while in federal custody early Tuesday, Homeland Security officials said. But that is only after migrantchildren and parents have been released from Border Patrol custody, as many as five or six days after they've crossed the border. When the boy was evaluated for release, hospital staff found a fever and he was held for an additional 90 minutes before being released on Monday afternoon, CBP said. He was prescribed amoxicillin and ibuprofen, and taken with his father to a holding facility at a highway checkpoint. After the boy began to vomit and had a fever, he was taken back to the hospital in the evening, where he died just before midnight on December 24.

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CBP said in the statement that it needs the help of other government agencies to provide health care.

An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died on Christmas Day while in US Border Control custody.

The girl and her father, Nery Gilberto Caal Cuz, had been traveling with a group of 163 migrants who were arrested on December 6 near a border crossing in New Mexico. "On behalf of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, our deepest sympathies go out to the family".

The 8-year-old and his father entered the US via El Paso, Texas, on December 18.

"The Congress will also investigate this tragedy and the heartbreaking death of Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin, to seek justice and ensure that no other child is left to such a fate".

The United States has neither the detention space nor the legal authority to hold children long enough to process their parents' claims, so families are typically released from custody to await court hearings that could be months, even years, into the future...

Margaret Huang, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said the Trump administration's "policies of cruelty toward migrants and asylum-seekers at the border must cease immediately before any more children are harmed".

The father of the 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in US government custody says his son had shown no signs of illness before falling sick Monday, the same day he died. Her remains were returned to Guatemala and buried on Christmas Day.

A spokeswoman for the Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center said in a statement that privacy regulations prevented the hospital from sharing information about an individual patient and could not comment on the case.

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